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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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5162
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John
T.
Addison
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis
This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (4), 779-809)
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J20, J38, J48, J58, J88
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5161
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James
Banks
Alastair
Muriel
James
P.
Smith
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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS
In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically ...
(published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2(2):101-126, 2011)
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I0
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5160
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Andreas
Kuhn
Jean-Philippe
Wuellrich
Josef
Zweimüller
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Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality
We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules ...
(revised and updated version published as IZA DP Nr. 11851, together with Stefan Staubli)
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I1, J14, J26
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5158
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 88-93)
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H0
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5157
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Redzo
Mujcic
Paul
Frijters
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Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank
In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, vol. 65(1), 47-73)
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D03, C91, J61
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5156
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Andrew
Dillon
Elena
Bardasi
Kathleen
Beegle
Pieter
Serneels
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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics
Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 98 (1),136-147 )
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J21, C81, C93
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5155
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
Matthew
Wiswall
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Household Choices and Child Development
The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 137-185)
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J13, D1
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5154
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Boris
Hirsch
Claus
Schnabel
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Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (4), 417-442)
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J62, J63, J16
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5153
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Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Manisha
Shah
Michael A.
Shields
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Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?
Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (6), 2187-2208)
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D13, J1
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5152
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John
Strauss
Xiaoyan
Lei
Albert
Park
Yan
Shen
James
P.
Smith
Zhe
Yang
Yaohui
Zhao
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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing 3(3-4):111-142, 2010)
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I10
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5151
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Peng
Sun
Almas
Heshmati
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1(2), 35-60.)
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C23, D24, F10, O24, R58
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5150
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Michael
C.
Burda
Mark
Weder
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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary influence of governments on labor markets. This paper examines the role of payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations in a ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (2), 436 - 467)
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E24, J64, E32
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5149
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Hongbin
Li
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1535-1557)
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J13, J15, J18, O10
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5148
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Guangjie
Ning
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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 Data
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2010, 34 (4), 397-412)
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I20, J31, O15
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5147
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Yama
Temouri
Alexander
Vogel
Joachim
Wagner
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 25 (2), 146-158)
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F14, D21, L80
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5146
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Niaz
Asadullah
Gaston
Yalonetzky
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Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States
This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the ...
(published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (6), 1151–1163)
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D63, O53
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5144
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Martin
Ryan
Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
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Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours
This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and ...
(published as "The Role of Noncognitive Traits in Undergraduate Study Behaviours" in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 181-195)
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I21, J2, D90
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5142
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Melanie
Khamis
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Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis
Ethnic conflicts and their links to international human trafficking have recently received a surge in international attention. It appears that ethnic conflicts exacerbate the internal displacement of ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing: 2010)
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R23, D74, O11, Z12
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5141
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Aslan
Zorlu
Clara
H.
Mulder
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Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers: Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the ...
(published in: Advances in Life Course Research, 2010, 15 (2-3), 109 - 120)
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J15, J61
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5140
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
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The Elephant in the Corner: A Cautionary Tale about Measurement Error in Treatment Effects Models
Researchers in economics and other disciplines are often interested in the causal effect of a binary treatment on outcomes. Econometric methods used to estimate such effects are divided into one of ...
(published in: Advances in Econometrics: Missing-Data Methods, 2011, 27 A, 1-39)
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C21, C52
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5139
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
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High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom
This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the ...
(published as 'Returns to Education and Educational Outcomes: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom', in: Journal of Human Capital, 2016, 10 (2), 235 - 265)
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J24, J22, I20, L74
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5138
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Shoshana
Grossbard
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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision-making. Most alternative models currently used are bargaining models and consensual ...
(published in: J. Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Springer: 2011)
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D11, J00
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5135
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Emilia
Simeonova
William
Copeland
Adrian
Angold
Jane
E.
Costello
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Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity
This paper examines how exogenous income transfers during adolescence affect contemporaneous body mass index (BMI) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains ...
(published as 'Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 1-28)
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I10, I12, I38
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5132
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Mehtabul
Azam
Nishith
Prakash
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A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the existing literature focuses on average wage differential, we study the differences ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 394–414)
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J3, J45
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5131
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Nicolas
Petrosky-Nadeau
Etienne
Wasmer
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The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets
Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke and
Gertler 1989). We follow this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 5 (1), 193-221)
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E44, J60
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5127
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Haoran
He
Peter
Martinsson
Ping
Qin
Matthias
Sutter
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Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 525-536)
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C91, C92, C93, D10
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5126
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Heiko
Stüber
Thomas
Beissinger
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Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?
Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 870-887)
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E24, E31, J31
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5125
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David
McKenzie
Dean
Yang
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Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269)
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O12, J61, F22, C21
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5124
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
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The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (560), 339 - 375)
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O15, F22, J61
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5123
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Migration and Culture
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring ...
(published in: Epstein, Gil S. and Gang, Ira N. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald: 2010)
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R23, O15, F22
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5121
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
José
Varejão
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Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 95-111)
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J14, J24, J31
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5120
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000
We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we ...
(revised version published as 'The Decreasing Effect of Skin Tone on Women's Full-Time Employment' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (2), 398-426)
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J15, J16, J71
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5119
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Xiaodong
Gong
Robert
Breunig
Anthony
King
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How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates
The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, ...
(published as 'Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price' in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 51-69)
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J22, J13
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5118
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Christian
Bredemeier
Falko
Juessen
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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 603-631)
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E24, J22, J16, D13
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5117
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Christian
Merkl
Dennis
Wesselbaum
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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (9), 805-808)
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C10, E32, J21
|
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5116
|
Eileen
Trzcinski
Elke
Holst
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2012, 107 (3), 449-463)
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J16, J29, J69
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5115
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Maarten
van Ham
Lee
Williamson
Peteke
Feijten
Paul
Boyle
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Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2013, 28 (1), 129-146)
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J60, J61, R23
|
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5113
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Juliane
Parys
Gregor
Schwerhoff
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Efficient Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave
We propose a model of how parents resolve conflicts about sharing the negative short and long-term consequences from parenthood-related career interruptions on earnings. We introduce childcare ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (1), 236 - 27)
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D13, J12, J13
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5112
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David
Powell
Joachim
Wagner
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The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2014, 150 (4), 763-785)
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F14, C21, C23
|
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5111
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Takao
Kato
Ju Ho
Lee
Jang-Soo
Ryu
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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans: Evidence from Korean Panel Data
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock ...
(published in: Tor Eriksson (ed.), Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms Volume 11, Bingley: Emerald, 2010)
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M52, J33, J24, J53, O53
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5110
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Simon
Fietze
Elke
Holst
Verena
Tobsch
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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?
The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career ...
(published in: management revue - The international Review of Management Studies, 2011, 22 (3), 240-273 )
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J16, J44, J71, M12, M14
|
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5109
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Ludwig
Ensthaler
Olga
Nottmeyer
Georg
Weizsäcker
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Hidden Skewness
We provide laboratory evidence that people neglect skewness resulting from compound shocks.
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (4), 1693-1706. )
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C91, D03
|
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5108
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Martin
Kahanec
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia
In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 415-443)
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I21, I12, J24, N34
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5105
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Boris
Maciejovsky
Matthias
Sutter
David
V.
Budescu
Patrick
Bernau
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Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We ...
(revised version published as 'Teams make you smarter: How exposure to teams improves individual decisions in probability and reasoning tasks' in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (6), 1255-1270)
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C91, C92, D03
|
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5103
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Robin
M.
Hogarth
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We ...
(revised version published as 'Ambiguous Incentives and the Persistence of Effort: Experimental Evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 1-19)
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C92, M54, J28, J31
|
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5102
|
Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (1), 94 - 116)
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I18, I2, J13
|
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5101
|
Ludger
Woessmann
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418)
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I20, J33
|
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5100
|
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility
I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31 (1), 94-110)
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J68
|
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5099
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Jordi
Galí
Thijs
van Rens
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The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity
We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 302 - 326)
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E24, E32
|
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5098
|
Sabrina
Di Addario
Daniela
Vuri
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 848-858)
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R12, J24, J21
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